 | The Marrow of Tradition (Penguin Twentieth Century Classics)
Release Date: February 1, 1993| Series: Penguin Twentieth Century Classics One of the most significant novels in American literature, "The Marrow of Tradition" is based on the Wilmington, North Carolina, Massacre of 1898. Called a "race riot" by the inflammatory Southern press and engineered by white Democrats who had seen their political slip into the hands of Republicans, many of whom were black, it was in fact a coup that restored power to the Democrats by subverting the principles of free democratic election. Some of Charles Chestnutt's relatives lived through the violence, and their acc...
 |  | Starting Now: A Blossom Street Novel
Release Date: April 16, 2013#1 New York Times bestselling author Debbie Macomber returns to Seattle’s beloved Blossom Street in this heartfelt tale of friendship, renewal, and discovering what’s truly important in life.For years Libby Morgan dreamed only of making partner in her competitive, high-pressure law firm. She sacrificed everything for her career—her friends, her marriage, her chance at creating a family. When her boss calls Libby into his office, she assumes it will finally be good news, but nothing can prepare her for the shocking reality: She’s been le...
|  | The lair of the white worm
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|  | Resident Evil: Apocalypse
Publication Date: August 31, 2004| Series: Resident Evil Failure of the Hive to contain the Umbrella Corporation's most deadly viral creation has led to an outbreak of apocalyptic proportions. Now the streets of Raccoon City swarm with the living dead, compelling Umbrella to deploy another of its bio-weapons, a hulking prototype soldier code-named 'Nemesis' that kills anything in its path. Jill Valentine of the RCPD and several others are determined to get out of Raccoon alive, but only if they can escape the city's hordes of undead, Umbrella's unleashed creatures, and the relentless pursuit...
|  | Dos Equis (Russell Quant Mysteries)
Publication Date: April 15, 2012| Series: Russell Quant Mysteries After a year-long, self-imposed exile, ten whispered words in a cryptic telephone message change everything for Russell Quant: “Quant, you are the only one who can help me.” Returning to his life as a prairie private eye, he comes face to face with the greatest horror of his career. When an old rival is found dead, Quant is thrust into his most personal and dangerous case yet. Up against a cold, calculating villain, Russell risks everything, including the lives of those he loves. Fighting to right a wrong, Russel...
|  | La mas faulera (Spanish Edition)
Publication Date: June 1, 2005Andrea es una adolescente apasionada por el basquetbol. Todo esta subordinado al deporte: la escuela, la familia, los amigos,hasta su novio! Pero tiene un gran problema: comete demasiados faules y con frecuencia es expulsada de los partidos. Ademas hay que ver quien sera la capitana de la Seleccion. En un contexto de entrenamientos, rinas, trivialidades, la amistad y el numero 5 que la acompanan, Andrea, la mas faulera, hace de la cancha un pedazo intenso de la vida. """"La narracion corre por cuenta de la propia Andrea, y eso le da una frescura de lo mas encomi...
|  | The Investigation: A Novel
Release Date: July 10, 2012A wild, Kafka-esque romp through a dystopian landscape, probing thedarkly comic nature of the human condition. The Investigator is a man quite like any other. He is balding, of medium build, dresses conservatively—in short, he is unremarkable in every way. He has been assigned to conduct an Investigation of a series of suicides (twenty-two in the past eighteen months) that have taken place at the Enterprise, a huge, sprawling complex located in an unnamed Town. The Investigator's train is delayed, and when he finally arrives, there's no one to pick him up at ...
|  | As Used on the Famous Nelson Mandela: Underground Adventures in the Arms and Torture Trade
Release Date: May 22, 2007The first book from one of England's most effective and best-known political activists, also a highly successful stand-up comedian, is a deeply funny and disturbing account of his rampage through the arms trade. Under a fairly flimsy disguise and with the use of some worryingly poor accents, Mark Thomas managed to set himself up as an arms exporter and set off on a journey of discovery in the company of arms dealers, torture victims, politicians, cops, and more. The result is a shockingly entertaining read. Embedded within the sharpness of his humor is the...
|  | Christmas Program Builder No. 49: Collection of Graded Resources for the Creative Program Planner
Release Date: December 1, 1996| Series: Christmas Program Builder (Book 49) (Lillenas Publications). Lillenas has been supplying churches and Sunday Schools with graded Christmas recitations, exercises, and easy to stage short play scripts in this "Program Builder" series for over 50 years. This 49th year's edition is up to par, and full of practical and very usable resources. ...
|  | Perestroika Poems
Publication Date: July 31, 2012The search that culminates in "Perestroika Poems" took Peterson more than half a century. It began in 1959 when he questioned the death of his father. The answer to that question led through Farrar's "Life of Christ" and the King James family bible to the publication in 1996 of Peterson's first poetry book: "Deconstructing the Rock", now available on Amazon. The Rock of the title is Peterson himself (son of the rock) and all that he held dear, including the Rock of Ages and the church that was built upon it. And then he read "Holy Blood Holy Grail", "The Lost G...
|  | Basho to Buson no sekai (Japanese Edition)
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|  | Articulated Ladies: Gender and the Male Community in Early Chinese Texts (Harvard-Yenching Institute Monograph Series)
Publication Date: October 15, 2001| ISBN-10: 0674005279 | ISBN-13: 978-0674005273This volume analyzes the representation of gender and desire in elite, male-authored literary texts in China dating from roughly 200 B.C. until 1000 A.D. Above all, it discusses the intimate relationship between the representation of gender and the political and social self-representations of elite men and shows where gender and social hierarchies cross paths. Rouzer argues that when male authors articulated themselves as women, the resulting articulation was inevitably influenced by this act of identificati...
|  | Forbidden Quest (Love Spectrum Romance)
Release Date: June 1, 1998| Series: Love Spectrum Romance A white, genteel Southern woman engaged to a prominent architect meets a Jamaican immigrant and falls in love with him in this new novel by the Hemingway First Novel Award-winning author of "Broken". ...
|  | Sourdough Creek
Publication Date: March 21, 2012SOURDOUGH CREEK, A "sweet" Western Historical Romance set in 1851 Nevada Territory / California Sam Ridgeway is on a mission. He's determined to find the deed to his gold claim, along with the low-down, thieving bum who stole it from his saddlebag. Arvid Angel would pay! Cassie Angel has a plan. She and her little sister will sneak out of Broken Branch before being left alone in the dying town with the despicable Sherman brothers. Thank goodness she now has a place to flee to. On his last visit, her Uncle Arvid stashed a deed to a gold claim in her d...
|  | A Palm for Mrs. Pollifax
Release Date: July 12, 1985| Series: Mrs. Pollifax "Mrs. Pollifax gives Agatha Christie's Miss Marple a rival to reckon with."TORONTO STARA secret agent like no other, Mrs. Pollifax was leading a very full life: Garden Club, karate, yoga--and a little spying now and then. This time the mysterious Mr. Carstairs sent her to Switzerland--to a famous health resort where the world's intelligence agents had gathered. Her mission: to track down a missing package of plutonium--just enough to make a small atomic bomb. It was a job that suited Mrs. Pollifax's talents. She's good with people and even b...
|  | They Came to Baghdad
Release Date: June 14, 2011 Baghdad is holding a secret superpower summit, but the word is out, and an underground organization in the Middle East is plotting to sabotage the talks. Into this explosive situation appears Victoria Jones, a young woman with a yearning for adventure who gets more than she bargains for when a wounded spy dies in her hotel room. The only man who can save the summit is dead. Can Victoria make sense of his dying words: Lucifer…Basrah…Lefarge.…...
|  | Heroes: A Pop-up Storybook (Star Wars: The Clone Wars)
Release Date: September 17, 2009| Age Level: 8 and up | Grade Level: 3 and up...
|  | Amazing NASCAR Races
Publication Date: February 1, 2008| Age Level: 9 and up | Grade Level: 4 and up...
|  | Extreme Sports: Ski!
Release Date: February 1, 2002| Age Level: 9 and up | Grade Level: 4 and up...
|  | Gymnastics (Know Your Sport)
Publication Date: March 27, 2008 ...
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